Recent issues where computer programs and algorithms have incorrectly identified people and objects have started to open a wider debate about the socio-political ramifications of such misrepresentation. Artist Max Dovey – whom we first profiled in Imperica back in 2011 – is addressing these issues head-on in his new work, How to be more or less human.

For summer 2015, the Grundy Art Gallery presents a new commission: THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE, an experimental narrative film and multimedia sculptural installation by artist Jennet Thomas.

The film presents a kind of absurd fairy-tale, in which a strange mythical tribe surrounding the ‘Blue Lady’, based on a memory of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, holds sway. The tribe takes a fictional pilgrimage through a future-primitive world, where the difference between magic and technology is now forgotten.

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A finger poised on a camera – its open back revealing the film roll and mechanism – sets the scene for this exhibition of photographs about photography. Somewhere between a film director, a picture editor and an art historian, American artist Christopher Williams (b.1956) investigates photography as the defining medium of modernism.

STOP PLAY RECORD- film making opportunity at ICA

Open to anyone interested in making experimental short films and being introduced to a range of professionals from different creative sectors who work with the moving image. 24 London-based participants will be selected through this annual open submission application to conceive and produce a new short film between 90 seconds and 3 minutes long, for potential inclusion in a new public broadcast series currently in development for Random Acts. ( Chanel 4)

Jennet’s new film THE UNSPEAKABLE FREEDOM DEVICE

is on tour in April!

The film is touring to 4 artist-run venues around England in a run-up to the big installation show at Grundy Gallery in July-August. The film will be screened followed by a debate with speakers and audience, a live performance, and drinks. Please come along: